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Re: WINDOWS security has another vulnerability

Subject: Re: WINDOWS security has another vulnerability
From: Mitch <mitch@xxxxxxxxx>
Date: Tue, 28 Feb 2006 16:49:35 GMT
Newsgroups: 24hoursupport.helpdesk
In article <44042bfb@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>, john wrote:

> The desktop is the area of attack not servers... there are many windows 
> servers out there.. but they dont have much problems either.

Windows servers have had a couple spectacular attacks.

> Most viruses spread by human error. When you have a machine sitting there
> online with no interaction working as a server, humans cant mix it up.

True, and true of OS stability also, but unless you're shopping for a
server, that doesn't help any.
For users, the discussion is always about the computer that is going to
have constant human interaction.

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